Bristol trio running £100,000 'same day' drug delivery service on social media arrested

The trio would promote the sale of cannabis to customers on social media and an encrypted messaging app offering "in person" drop offs to hundreds of addresses across Bristol. The audacious gang - who even made branded clothing - would also send drugs across the country by post and made more than £100k a month.

Jake Herault-Redman, 26, Callum Coen, 22, and Joseph Wilks, 30, all from Bristol, have now been jailed after appearing at Bristol Crown Court on 1 July. The body cam footage from June 2024 shows officers from SWROCU and Avon and Somerset Police executing a warrant at an address in Eastville, which was the hub of the drug supply operation.

Upon entry, Wilks ran at officers assaulting one of them before running out of the back door where he was detained. Coen and Herault-Redman were arrested a short distance from the address having also fled the premises.

Numerous weapons including machetes, air rifles, knives and baseball bats were recovered from around entrances to the address and a machete was found on the floor next to where the officer was assaulted.

Following his arrest, Wilks said to officers “the only reason I didn’t machete you in the head is because I heard you shout police”.

At the time of the arrests, officers seized 7kg of cannabis, including edibles, and over £3,800 in cash. A further £13,000 of cryptocurrency was seized from Herault-Redman’s address along with over £3,330 worth of designer clothes.

A large number of black bin bags were at the property in Eastville and found to contain hundreds of brown sandwich bags each with a postcode and cash or crypto amounts written on them. The bags would be used to deliver drugs and payment dropped into the bag in exchange.

All three men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class B drugs and acquiring criminal property, namely cash and cryptocurrency.

Herault-Redman was sentenced to three years and three months. Coen was handed an 18-month sentence, suspended for two years. Wilks pleaded guilty to an additional offence of assaulting a police officer and was jailed for a total of four-and-a-half years.

Acting Detective Inspector Stuart Cumine from SWROCU said: “We estimate the group was making in excess of a hundred thousand pounds every month over a significant period of time; they even had the audacity to have ‘The Smoke Shack’ branded clothing made to promote their illegal trade.

“The sheer number of discarded brown sandwich bags found demonstrates the scale of their cannabis delivery service to people across the length and breadth of Bristol. If you’re buying illegal drugs, you’re not only funding organised crime groups, you are ignoring the exploitation involved in their cultivation, production and supply.”